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Plant resources of south-east asia 5 : (1) timber trees : major commercial timbers

Prosea, short for 'Plant Resources of South-East Asia', is an international programme focused on South-East Asia. Its purpose is to make available the wealth of dispersed knowledge on plant resources for education, extension, research and industry through a computerized data bank and an illustrated multivolume handbook. A thorough knowledge of plant resources is essential for human life and plays a key role in ecologically balanced land-use systems. Extensive information on the plants growing in the region is needed to enable the plant resources of each country to be used optimally. A large international team of experts is preparing the texts on particular species or genera, which are being published in commodity groups. All taxa are treated in a similar manner with details on uses, botany, ecology, agronomy or silviculture, genetic resources, breeding, prospects and literature.

This volume on timber trees deals with the most important commercial timbers of South-East Asia. This region produces the major part of the timber on the world market; timber is a major export product and increasingly important domestically. Uncontrolled logging, together with other human activities such as shifting cultivation, leads to destruction of tropical forest. Sustainable management of natural forest and the establishment of timber plantations integrated with land-use programmes (including agriculture) will protect forests from destruction and generate permanent timber production in the future. Reliable and up-to-date information on all aspects of tree species and their wood is a prerequisite for sustainable utilization. Among the 55 timber trade groups described in this volume are meranti, balau, keruing, kapur, white seraya, mersawa, merbau, sepetir, narra, kempas, teak, nyatoh, mengkulang, ramin, ulin, pulai, kauri, pine, mahogany and eucalypt. Brief characteristics of 550 species belonging to those trade groups are included. A glossary explains the terms used.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Plant resources of south-east asia

No. Panggil

582.1 SOE p

Penerbit

Bogor : Prosea Foundation., 1994

Deskripsi Fisik

609 hlm. : ilus. : ind. : bib. ; 27 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

979-8316-17-7

Klasifikasi

582.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

unmediated

Tipe Pembawa

unspecified

Edisi

Jil. 5 (1).

Subjek

Kayu
Botani

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

editor, I. Soerianegara and R.H.M.J. Lemmens

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